Category: Painting

Oil painting demystified
According to Reno painter David McCamant, the medium is more user-friendly than its reputation suggests

Podcast: Art at the Nevada Governor’s Mansion
Artist Ronnie Rector & Carson City Art Dept's Mark Salinas discuss First Lady Kathy Sisolak's new exhibition series

Podcast: Ahren Hertel on oil painting
“When Ahren Hertel first started painting seriously, he had two main influences, comics like Calvin and Hobbes and Renaissance painting. He took it from there. Lately, he’s been making portraits of friends and fellow artists, and masterfully abstract Nevada landscapes. Ahren dropped by the KWNK studio in Reno to talk about his trajectory as an artist and what teaching painting...

Matching picture: Austin Pratt’s world was a good place to question my own
A probing search for order in a universe that may or may not be benevolent

Desert dreams
Summer Orr's surreal watercolors are the first works in Holland Project's off-site gallery in the new Ferino Distillery

Northern California dreaming
Once landscape painter Phyllis Shafer first saw the West, there was no turning back

Route to the rurals
Ron Arthaud spent years learning to paint, then settled in a remote Nevada town and got to know the landscape

Georgia O’Keeffe: Beautiful flowers or provocative anatomy?
A traveling exhibition is willing to talk about something else already

Fixer upper
A 1906 painting of a prominent Reno woman was restored. You can catch a glimpse at the Lilley Musuem.